The Advanced Processor Technologies Research Group

The Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) group researches advanced and novel approaches to processing and computation. The group is based in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester where research into computer technology began more than 50 years ago with the construction of the world's first stored-program computer. Today the emphasis of the research is on identifying novel ways to exploit the formidable complexity of the billion transistor microchips that semiconductor technology will make commonplace over the next decade.

The APT group welcomes approaches from potential postgraduate students who are interested in studying for an MPhil or PhD with the group
and we are keen to identify companies and other academic groups who are interested in collaborating with us in our research programmes. Current and recent APT projects include:

New Initiatives

Human Brain Project - HBPDeveloping the SpiNNaker platform and making it available to the
neuroscience and robotics communities, as well as starting the
development of the next-generation SpiNNaker machine.

Design Tools

Balsa version 4.0
June 2010 - New release of the Balsa asynchronous design and synthesis tool.
Note:
This is the last release of Balsa. There will be no further development and
future support will be limited.